If Samsung succeeds in obtaining this ban, then that's billions of dollars they lose in sales of flash memory to Apple. Who's in charge of that outfit?
I don't think it falls under the 4th amendment at all.
Of course it does. You need a warrant for any invasion of privacy. If I stuck a tracker on your car without your consent, you could have me prosecuted under stalking laws.
Is not whether this tracking is constitutional: it's an obvious violation of the fourth amendment, among other civil rights. The question is whether the court will do its duty, or once again provide a pretense of legitimacy to a power-grab.
The reason that Obama reneged on his promises w/r/t the drug war, is that the drug war is an enormous pork-barrel scheme. It provides a pretext for billions of dollars of spending, as well as providing bribe money at all levels of local and state government, from cops on the beat to mayors, to state legislators.
Besides that, the drug war amounts to universal criminalization: cops can get away with breaking into anyone's home and killing them if they pretend to have done so on the basis of an anonymous tip that there were drugs in the house in question.
I'm not surprised that Dr. Paul is in favor of ending the drug war, but I didn't think Barney Frank had the guts. Good for them.
People move from subsistence farming to factory work, capital investment raises their marginal productivity, employers have to compete for workers, and wages rise. It's the same thing that happened in England and the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
I remember the days when buying desktop computers was a way to get your work done without waiting for the "data processing" department to get around to thinking about whatever applications you'd asked for.
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It's not a small profit hit. Apple is far and away the biggest customer for flash memory that there is.
-jcr
If Samsung succeeds in obtaining this ban, then that's billions of dollars they lose in sales of flash memory to Apple. Who's in charge of that outfit?
-jcr
I don't think it falls under the 4th amendment at all.
Of course it does. You need a warrant for any invasion of privacy. If I stuck a tracker on your car without your consent, you could have me prosecuted under stalking laws.
-jcr
Is not whether this tracking is constitutional: it's an obvious violation of the fourth amendment, among other civil rights. The question is whether the court will do its duty, or once again provide a pretense of legitimacy to a power-grab.
-jcr
Ok, I'll be more specific: when you can silence a helicopter or supersonic airplane while it's flying, I'll be interested.
-jcr
When you can silence a helicopter or a supersonic airplane, I'll be really interested.
-jcr
Had a look at a topographical map of Norway lately? Now, compare it to one of the UK.
Hydro power doesn't work everywhere in the world.
-jcr
Is that happening on all of your projects, or just one in particular? What happens if you create a new one from the template?
-jcr
I can't speak for desktop linux, but OS X is showing steady market share growth for quite a few years now.
-jcr
The reason that Obama reneged on his promises w/r/t the drug war, is that the drug war is an enormous pork-barrel scheme. It provides a pretext for billions of dollars of spending, as well as providing bribe money at all levels of local and state government, from cops on the beat to mayors, to state legislators.
Besides that, the drug war amounts to universal criminalization: cops can get away with breaking into anyone's home and killing them if they pretend to have done so on the basis of an anonymous tip that there were drugs in the house in question.
I'm not surprised that Dr. Paul is in favor of ending the drug war, but I didn't think Barney Frank had the guts. Good for them.
-jcr
I wrote them off when they became a corporate welfare case.
-jcr
They use parachutes to drag tanks out of airplanes that are flying within ten feet of the ground, not to slow the fall of the tank.
-jcr
>Microsoft owned Skype, I'd point out.
Not yet, actually. They've agreed to buy them, but the deal hasn't closed yet.
-jcr
What's your next guess?
Apple's software never installs anything without user permission. It shows you what it wants to update, and you can accept it or reject it.
-jcr
You can get excellent quality from Chinese vendors. It's all a matter of what you're willing to pay.
-jcr
, I don't know where to buy decent clothes.
Norsdstroms. You get what you pay for.
-jcr
People move from subsistence farming to factory work, capital investment raises their marginal productivity, employers have to compete for workers, and wages rise. It's the same thing that happened in England and the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
-jcr
I remember the days when buying desktop computers was a way to get your work done without waiting for the "data processing" department to get around to thinking about whatever applications you'd asked for.
-jcr
Ask John Draper sometime what happens when you taunt the government like this.
-jcr
Don't try to put words in my mouth. You don't know who I blame.
-jcr
They got this thing in Germany called a "work ethic". That's notably lacking here.
-jcr
then they spend the big pile. ..and then they borrow 47% more and spend that, too.
-jcr
We need more union labor in the US.
Yeah, that way the whole country can be like Detroit!
Oh, wait...
-jcr
I think I learned about 10x from my job, where we had to deliver a marketable product on a tight deadline, than I ever learned at my college.
I would expect that to be the case for any job worth doing.
-jcr
Who is deciding not to prosecute these cases involving illegal immigrants - and why?
Maybe someone with a limited budget who has to choose between locking people up for causing severe inconvenience, and locking people up for violence?
-jcr